Atlas of a lost world
Subtitle: travels in ice age America
By: Craig Childs ; illustrations by Sarah Gilman
Contributors: Gilman, Sarah, illustrator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780307908650
Subjects: Fossil Mammals; Paleo-Indians; Prehistoric peoples; Paleoecology; Glacial epoch
Description: Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years ago, sea levels were low enough that a vast land bridge was exposed between Asia and North America-- but was not the only way across. Childs provides an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago, the megafauna they found here, and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. -- adapted from publisher info
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accelerated Reader UG 8.2 17 17 195297
Table of contents: title: Land bridge: date unknown; title: Inner Beringia: 25,000 years ago; title: House of ice: 20,000 years ago; title: The long coast: 17,000 years ago; title: Playground of giants: 45,000 to 15,000 years ago; title: Emergence: 16,000 to 14,000 years ago; title: A dangerous Eden: 14,500 years ago; title: Cult of the fluted point: 13,500 years ago; title: The last mammoth hunt: 13,000 to 12,000 years ago; title: American Babylon: 12,800 to 11,800 years ago; title: The party at the beginning of the world: 11,000 years ago.